Here's the problem with the Gay Mafia analogy: The "gay mafia" can't order hits, they can't strategize. If they could, they'd go after a more deserving target than Brendan Eich.

It's the same with the #cancelcolbert people, and its the same problem the tea party has, or Glenn Beck or any emotional-frenzy-based constituency- you can't focus them, you can only whip up a frenzy and ride it out.

Brendan Eich got taken down because he didn't have a company or a political party behind him. He was weak, and he got bullied by a self-righteous mob. But they can't control it.

I doubt Maher's scared. It's easy to get lots of people to bitch about something on twitter. You probably can't get them to boycott Game of Thrones.

"its the same problem the tea party has, or Glenn Beck or any emotional-frenzy-based constituency- you can't focus them, you can only whip up a frenzy and ride it out."

Says someone who does not understand the Tea Party. It is a group of people who understand where the country is going and are trying to figure out how to turn it around. A lot of it is education about politics, not the newspaper and blog kind but the nuts and bolts kind. That's why the professional politicians are scared shitless of them. If they (we) ever find the controls, they will be in big trouble.

I was in a conversation with a friend of mine and had no idea that he knew novelist and futurist David Brin. My buddy is a gay conservative and pretty much agrees with Andrew Sullivan on the Eich "resigning".

I showed Brin the Mahar clip and here's his response.

"What a load. It is a commercial company that fears its goodwill has been poisoned by an employee and has made a capitalist value judgement to choose goodwill with millions of customers over a questionable choice by an earlier board.

In other words, you guys are dopes. You hypocritically claim to support capitalism without even understanding a thing about it. This had ZERO to do with "rainbow mafias". yeesh"

I have it on good authority that in olden times (i.e., my youth), Italian-American kids ALWAYS claimed to have an uncle in the Mafia. Being "connected" was a good way to claim street cred, and perhaps protection.

I suspect there are plenty of gays who love the idea that straight people think there's a gay mafia (and this is entirely aside from the great fashion possibilities).

I don't know who David Brin is or why I should value his opinion, even though he put it so thoughtfully.

However, I doubt Mozilla took the time to understand what it's customers wanted. They responded to backlash they thought they had, without ever even trying to defend Eich. There's no telling if they've hurt themselves more by dumping him, but I'm sure their response felt good in the moment.

"Much of the shock following the removal of Brendan Eich from the position of Mozilla CEO came from the realization that, in a manner of speaking, America was now at war. True it’s a culture war, not a physical conflict. But if you were waiting for the moment when the Cold Civil War actually begins, this might be it..."

""What a load. It is a commercial company that fears its goodwill has been poisoned by an employee and has made a capitalist value judgement to choose goodwill with millions of customers over a questionable choice by an earlier board."

I guess we will find out where the "goodwill" is. This guy is a pioneer and probably indispensable to Mozilla. There is a history of companies making bad choices. John Sculley made one.

Sculley said he didn't have the business expertise at the time to fully understand what visionary leadership was. "What would have happened if we hadn't have had that showdown?...I did not have the breadth of experience at that time to really appreciate just how different leadership is when you are shaping an industry," Sculley said

The homosexual community is a victim of the homosexual mafia. The alternative narratives proposed and promoted by the homosexual mafia have, over time, been exposed as fraudulent and, ironically, dispelled with prejudice. The individual was never an issue, other than in the exception.

It's more than a "cultural" war. This war claims around one million victims each and every year. That is one million Obamas, Reids, and Sullivans who are executed with a scalpel or poison, then flushed down a toilet or otherwise discarded.

"Yeah, the gay mafia made up of a bunch if little gay boys who get picked on everyday and treated like crap and suffer physical violence at the hands of a bunch idiots are really powerful. "

Do you actually know and young gay people today? I do, more than a couple, through my daughter's friendships, and I just don't think it is like that anymore, but I do understand how the grievance industry wants to pretend that it is.

Not to dispute the "great" Bill Maher, because I know he wouldn't want to be insensitive or anything, but doesn't "gay" only refer to homosexual men these days, while the female homosexuals insist on lesbian? Isn't the ever expanding acronym start with L and then G followed by an ever changing set of letters that no one can accurately get correct?

I mean, if you're going to be afraid of anyone, I think it might be the lesbian mafia, or one of those other mysterious groups and their storm troopers.

@tim in Vermont. The "grievance industry" didn't create the environment in which young gay people grow up. For some edification, take a few moments to visit nohomophobes.com. You'll see that the environment young gay people grow up, as evidenced by the public tweets of their peers, in is not an HRC banquet dinner.

Also, the gay mafia, which I guess means rich gay people who worked hard to become successful and exert their hardwon power to fight anti-gay practices (which seems totally reasonable), didn't get this guy fired. Okcupid did, essentially, by making news with their request that users not access their site via Firefox -- okcupid isn't a company run by gays.

Also, the gay mafia, which I guess means rich gay people who worked hard to become successful and exert their hardwon power to fight anti-gay practices (which seems totally reasonable), didn't get this guy fired.

No, now you're spreading the blame. Who is the person who makes the phone call to get someone like Eich fired? Who makes the phone call pressuring Duck Dynasty?

I refuse to believe that this is a conference call involving more than a few people.

Also, the gay mafia, which I guess means rich gay people who worked hard to become successful and exert their hardwon power to fight anti-gay practices (which seems totally reasonable), didn't get this guy fired.

Also, if these are business people -- these gay mafia bullies -- what companies do they work for? If you're a straight person, would you want to work for the sort of person who would get an otherwise talented person like Eich fired?

I see now that only gay children have issues with their peers while growing up. I hadn't realized that before. I am now OK with this kind of tactic.

On the one hand, I can see that it was justified, and on the other, I can see how gays had nothing to do with it. It is amazing.

Next I suggest you guys start burning libraries. They are full of books by people who take the view of marriage that had been held by nearly the entire human race for as long as there has been a human race. It has to be done. Don't worry about the tactic and how it appears. You are defenders of the one true faith.

While you are at it, I suggest you stop using the internet. You see, if you look at the source on the page you are viewing, you will, except in the case of the simplest pages, see javascript. Javascript was invented by the very anti-gay bigot that was hounded from his job. It is ubiquitous. I can't believe that you would use a medium that depends on this fiend's work.

Isn't that kind of like using an anatomy book filled with drawings made by the Nazis of the human body? Beyond the pale? Or does this only go as far as is convenient for you guys?

Mozilla corp certainly has the right to choose who will work for them and in what capacity, and I'm glad the left agrees. But let's not hear anymore about the "brave heroes" of the Hollywood Blacklist, who were fired or denied work because of their objectionable, oppressive political actions.

@fiftyville's comment -- mentioning cupcakes and tiramisu -- reminded me of that book from the early '80s: "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche." The guys who wrote it would be drawn and quartered in this day and age, assuming they could even get it published.

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